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• Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Car, Art Is

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• As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to tell us what time it is and a GPS watch to tell us what space it is!

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Gps, Two

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• For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy.

  Paul Virilio

  Democracy, Example, Culture

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• The research on vision machines was mainly conducted at the Stanford Research Institute in the US. So, we can say that the events that took place in the Kosovo War were a total confirmation of the thesis of The Vision Machine.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Vision, Events

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• To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Real, Technology

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• The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.

  Paul Virilio

  Bombs, Atomic Bomb, Provoked

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• Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

  Paul Virilio

  Territory

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• Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.

  Paul Virilio

  Law, Movement, Territory

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• France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Air, Sea

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• In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct. For instance, almost every conflict since then has involved the logistics of perception, including the war in Lebanon, where Israel made use of cheap drones in order to track Yasser Arafat with the aim of killing him.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Book, Order

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• Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving 'automated war' and 'war-at-a-distance' is also terribly weak in the face of terrorism. For instance, in such situations, any individual who decides to place or throw a bomb can simply walk away. He or she has the freedom to move. This also applies to militant political groups and their actions.

  Paul Virilio

  Distance, War, Moving

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• To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.

  Paul Virilio

  Mind, Body

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• Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.

  Paul Virilio

  Men, World

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• What brought me to Christianity is Incarnation, not Ressurection.

  Paul Virilio

  Christianity, Incarnation

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• The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.

  Paul Virilio

  Reading, Giving, Deployment

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• May I remind you that the bombs that were dropped by the B-2 plane on the Chinese embassy  or at least that is what we were told  were GPS bombs. And the B-2 flew in from the US.

  Paul Virilio

  Gps, Chinese, Bombs

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• There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Cnn, Perception

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• For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city!

  Paul Virilio

  Kings, Years, Cities

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• You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Drama, Mean

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